There is a one acre pond on land where I am going to build a house. It was strictly a livestock pond and never stocked with fish. There is no longer livestock on the property and will only have the possibility of very small numbers of livestock in the future.
I decided to see if there was fish in the pond, so I put a bucket feeder on it with floating feed. After a week or so there were tons fish hitting the feed. I have had ponds in the past that were naturally stocked, so I expected to have a pond full of mudcats and goggle eyes.
Crimsondave, what did you have in mind with the 'naturally stocked' reference? How did the ponds you have had in the past or this pond get the google eyes and mudcats?
Several on this forum have found fish in ponds that were 'supposed' to be empty and we all are still frantic to figure out how so many bodies of water all seem to come up full of fish when left unattended.
